MST3K – Page 2 – An Echo That's Reversing

Beast of Babylon Against the Son of Hercules (1963)

L’eroe di Babilonia (The Hero of Babylon), image from IMDB

Coronavirus – Tue 26 May 2020 – None of us are safe

I suspect now that none of us are safe. Well, the very wealthy are, but “us” being the comfortable and comfortably employed middle class will start feeling this. It’s such an un-fact-based feeling that is born of a destructively un-fact-based time that I hesitate. Someone on Twitter had said that we’re not going through a pandemic but rather through a catastrophe. So much else is tied in with the virus, and even ignoring Trump’s gross exacerbation of the situation, we have: a collapsing economy with attempts at revival increasing deaths (The meat industry is trying to get back to normal. But workers are still getting sick — and shortages may get worse. The Washington Post, 25 May 2020), federal and international disunity creating archipelagos of mitigation, disrupted food distribution resulting in massive livestock euthanasia (Opinion: Livestock Farmers, Without Options, Turn To Euthanasia, NPR, 16 May 2020), and a collapse of trust in basic science (‘How Could the CDC Make That Mistake?’, The Atlantic, 21 May 2020). The last item results in a justified mistrust but is the result of active poisoning of those institutions. The CDC, once the world’s laboratory, has been cooking the books.

None of this has really touched me at all, but buffers are only buffers until they wear thin and catastrophe hits the mark.

Coronavirus – Wed 22 Apr 2020 – Shut it down

screen cap of Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating covid-19 from The Washington Post on Sat 11 Apr 2020

Coronavirus – Sat 11 Apr 2020 – Stultification

I realized I hadn’t written in a week or so. I need to witness for myself and I’m not really sure why I paused. Maybe the stories start feeling all the same? Trump catastrophe after Trump catastrophe? Maybe we’ve settled in and a pandemic is boredom? That’s wrong: the weekly offenses are unique and my experiences are unique.

Catastrophes mount, this is Sat 11 Apr 2020:

Coronavirus – Sat 21 Mar 2020 – more lies and media response, Google docs, new graphs

Updated with chart the next day

Updated Wed 25 Mar 2020: These number became too aggressive after two day. Bad math or good luck?

Data taken from The COVID Tracking Project spreadsheet and extrapolated two weeks into the future.

Date	Current	Projection
20200315	3173	2981
20200316	4019	4181
20200317	5723	5865
20200318	7731	8227
20200319	11723	11539
20200320	17038	16186
20200321	23203	22703
20200322	31057	31845
20200323		44668
20200324		62654
20200325		87883
20200326		123270
20200327		172906
20200328		242530
20200329		340188
20200330		477170
20200331		669310
20200401		938818
20200402		1316848
20200403		1847097
20200404		2590859

Original post

People are getting scared and angry about Trumps lies about the virus and the country’s status in combating it. From Maddow (via @jayrosen_nyu), re Trump: